Still Waiting (Sum 41 song)

"Still Waiting"
Single by Sum 41
from the album Does This Look Infected?
Released	November 18, 2002
Format	CD
Recorded	2002
Genre	Melodic hardcore, punk rock
Length	2:38
Label	Island
Producer	Greig Nori
Sum 41 singles chronology
"What We're All About" (2002) "Still Waiting" (2002) "The Hell Song" (2003)

"Still Waiting" is the title of a song recorded by Canadian punk rock group Sum 41. It was released in November 2002 as the lead single from the album Does This Look Infected?. Was released as DLC for Rock Band on Jan. 31, 2012.

Background and writing

Whibley wrote the song after the September 11 attacks. In an interview with MTV.com, he said

“	It's not directly about 9/11 or the war on terrorism. It's about the war on everything. It's about the world as we know it. It's no secret that the world doesn't get along and there's all this hatred. It's everything to do with how this world functions.	”
—Deryck Wibley

Music video

The Marc Klasfeld-directed video starts with the boys entering the office of a record executive (played by Will Sasso). The executive is on the phone, and ends his call by saying "I gotta go, I think I'm about to get mugged" (a joke concerning the band's ragged appearance). After Sum 41 enters his office, the band asks him if he liked the new album. He says he hasn't heard it yet but he guesses it's all sort of songs about skateboarding and getting dumped (possibly referring to the band's change in sound with the new album). He said he called them in because the "number band thing" is out and lists examples Blink-182 and "Green Day 75" (mocking the supposed lack of knowledge record executives have of music and musicians) and says "The" is the new thing (probably mocking the Garage rock (revival) of the early 2000s) and changes their name to "The Sums" and the members' individual names (Deryck is "Sven", Cone is "Thurston", Dave is "Holmes" and Stevo is "Sergio"). He then throws Stevo a pack of cigarettes, because drinking and smoking is the "in" thing. The set is a spoof of The Strokes and The Vines and features random images of arcade games. At the start of the last chorus, Deryck breaks the choreography and starts trashing his equipment and Dave, Cone and Steve do the same thing. The video ends with the four band members pushing down The Sums' name in the back of them.

Track listing

CD single

1. Still Waiting
2. All Messed Up (Demo)
3. Motivation (Live at the Astoria)
4. Still Waiting (Demo) (Absent on some versions)
5. Still Waiting (CD ROM Video)

CD Single 2

1. Still Waiting
2. In Too Deep (live from Astoria)
3. Fat Lip (live from Astoria)

CD Single 3

1. Still Waiting
2. All Messed Up (Demo)

Charts

Chart (2003)	Peak position
Australian Singles Chart	43
Belgian Singles Chart (Flanders)	49
German Singles Chart	90
Swedish Singles Chart	33
Swiss Singles Chart	97
UK Official Rock Chart	1
UK Singles Chart	16
U.S. Billboard Hot Modern Rock Tracks	7
U.S. Billboard Bubbling Under Hot 100	6

Chart successions

Preceded by "No One Knows" by Queens Of The Stone Age

UK Rock Chart number-one single November 24, 2002 - February 2, 2003

Succeeded by "Shut Up" by Kelly Osbourne

External links

• "Still Waiting" Official music video on YouTube

Music sheet

• Music sheet Still Waiting